Shaker Heights High School - Gristmill Yearbook (Shaker Heights, OH)

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Constant testing kept Shaker boys on their toes in physical education classes throughout 1947- l948. Today we run the obstacle course. To- day we swim nine lengths for time. How many sit-ups can you do? How many chins'? Coaches soon found out. Whipping Shaker males into shape were Mr. Robert L. Breitenstein, Mr. Fred Heinlen, Mr. Howard G. Moritz, Mr. J. Paul Stark, and Mr. Ray E. Singer. Gym classes weren't all work, however. Football in the fall, basket- ball, boxing, wrestling in the winter, and baseball in the spring made seventh-period gym a swell way to end a day of classes. Boys took vi orous gym course,

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These Shakerites were snapped right in the middle of a real typing class with Mr. Guy F. Henry presiding. All are showing correct typing form except Donald Wick, who is looking at his typewriter instead of at his copy. Oh, welll Alan Wha them useful, most 0 theln Anthony Ferguson, Anthony Cianciolo, Ray Riviotta, Tom Thomp- son, Mr. Hanes, Philip Skaff, Jordan Holtz, Mike Cianciolo, Don Sherwin, Leonard Arnoft 17 nger, .loan Alcox, Donald Wick un In another of Mr. Hanes classes we find Mr. Hanes re-setting a saw blade which had been poorly set by a student. A free GristmIll goes to anyone who can find the face of the student responsible.

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Girls worked for sportsmanship As Jo'c day at Shaker draws to a close we find her iumping for a bosketball in the Shaker girls' gym. Here Miss Lillian Burke and Miss Helen Komp send the girls through three gym periods per week. Of these, one is instruction in a sport such as bas- ketball, hockey, or badminton, one is spent in playing the sport, and one is devoted to modern dancing, on inovation in the girls' program this year which is taught by Miss Komp. Extra periods in swimming instruction for the girls are optional.